Unpublished Plays

“A CHANGE OF VENUE”

Synopsis

A serious work dealing with the legality and morality of abortion and death. Running Time: approximately 2 hours. Cast of 3M, 1F and 6 "eithers." 
The director can also empanel a jury of twelve to consider the issues raised by the play.

When Father Thomas Slavin, a Catholic priest opposed to abortion concludes that the United States Supreme Court holding in Roe v Wade cannot be overturned in the political arena, he acts upon his belief that a fetus is a human person and takes the life of a doctor about to perform a late-term partial birth abortion.

The play is a Court room drama in which Father Slavin and his attorney, David Hoffman, attempt to justify Slavin’s shot gun murder of Doctor Green before a jury of Slavin’s peers.

When Doctor Green’s wife invokes a more primordial form of justice, the venue changes to a different court.

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Author's Email: irishplaywright@qconline.com 

 

"THE GATES OF HELL"

Synopsis

The play spans a three week period in the life of a young Catholic Priest.

Tom Ryan is the newly minted Catholic priest. He has been assigned to assist Monsignor O’Rourke at St. Patrick’s Parish. Without prior design, on the feast of the Immaculate Conception, he blunders into the realm of heresy when he questions the imputation of Adam’s sin to all his descendants. And like others before him who have advanced unorthodox teachings, Ryan learns the difficulty of returning to the bosom of Holy Mother Church.  

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Author's Email: irishplaywright@qconline.com 

 

“THE BLOOD OF MARTYRS”

Synopsis

In the year 203 A. D., Septimus Severus was  emperor of Rome. In March of 
that year, two Christian women, Perpetua and Felictus [Felicity] incurred death for refusing to offer incense for the welfare of the emperor in the North African city of Carthage.

The great early Christian writer Tertullian is believed to have taken Perpetua’s diary of her imprisonment, and to have completed the vivid account of her martyrdom. 

The author has embellished that  quintessential Christian testament of faith to incorporate the dissenting views and opinions of two non- Christian witnesses: those of her father, a pagan, and  those of her jailer, Prudens, an agnostic. 
          
What results, is a clash of ideas - a clash over the value of martyrdom.

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Author's Email: irishplaywright@qconline.com